Live and die

Live and die

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǎ ngsh ē ngs ò ngzh ō ng, which means that children's support and funeral for their parents are the same as "support life and death". It comes from Ben Yi, a treatise on salt and iron.

The origin of Idioms

Han huankuan's "on salt and iron · Ben Yi" said: "the red lacquer feather of Longshu, the leather bone elephant of Jingyang, the bamboo arrow of Nanzi in Jiangnan, the fish and salt fur of Yanqi, the lacquer silk feather of Yanyu, are the tools for life and death."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing.